Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Iwai

Hiroshi Iwai has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11967458
    Abstract: A superconducting coil includes: a winding member 12 that has a side surface 18 along a coil radial direction and is formed by laminating a superconducting tape wire 20 in the coil radial direction by winding; and a bypass 19 that is provided on the side surface 18 of the winding member 12 and electrically connects the superconducting tape wire 20 in the coil radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Sadanori Iwai, Taizo Tosaka, Hiroshi Miyazaki, Kenji Tasaki
  • Patent number: 11948640
    Abstract: A memory includes first and second select gate transistors, memory cells, a source line, a bit line, a selected word line which is connected to a selected memory cell as a target of a verify reading, a non-selected word line which is connected to a non-selected memory cell except the selected memory cell, a potential generating circuit for generating a selected read potential which is supplied to the selected word line, and generating a non-selected read potential larger than the selected read potential, which is supplied to the non-selected word line, and a control circuit which classifies a threshold voltage of the selected memory cell to one of three groups by verifying which area among three area which are isolated by two values does a cell current of the selected memory cell belong, when the selected read potential is a first value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Iwai, Hiroshi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20240101532
    Abstract: A compound useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition for treatment of cancer related to activation of immune cells or cancer resistant to anti-PD-1 antibody/anti-PD-L1 antibody therapy is provided. The present inventors have conducted studies on a compound useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition for treatment of cancer related to activation of immune cells or cancer resistant to anti-PD-1 antibody/anti-PD-L1 antibody therapy, and confirmed that a heteroaryl carboxamide compound has DGK ? (DGKzeta) inhibitory effect, leading to completion of the present invention. The heteroaryl carboxamide compound of the present invention has DGK ? inhibitory effect, and can be used as a therapeutic agent for treatment of cancer related to activation of immune cells or cancer resistant to anti-PD-1 antibody/anti-PD-L1 antibody therapy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Hideyuki Watanabe, Takashi Kamikubo, Akio Kamikawa, Takuya Washio, Yohei Seki, Keiichiro Okuyama, Osamu Ikeda, Hiroshi Tomiyama, Yoshinori Iwai, Akihiko Nakamura, Kozo Miyasaka
  • Publication number: 20240089864
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a communication device capable of improving a system throughput. Provided is a communication device including a control unit that transmits a second signal including a transmission request for a first signal for measuring reception power or propagation loss to another communication device, receives the first signal transmitted from the other communication device, measures the reception power or the propagation loss on the basis of the received first signal, and controls transmission power on the basis of the measured reception power or propagation loss. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a wireless LAN system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke TANAKA, Hiroshi SHIGENO, Takanobu OHNUMA, Koki IWAI, Riku INADA
  • Publication number: 20230401816
    Abstract: A detection system includes: an obtainer that obtains image data generated based on an amount of light received by each of a plurality of pixels from a detection target and event data generated based on a change in an amount of light received by each of a plurality of pixels from the detection target; a processor that extracts, from the event data as auxiliary information, information to be used to assist in detecting the detection target from the image data; and a detector that detects the detection target or a state of the detection target based on at least the image data and the auxiliary information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Manabu YUMINE, Shoji SO, Shigeru FURUMIYA, Michihiro YAMAGATA, Yutaka SONODA, Hiroshi IWAI, Tomokuni IIJIMA, Yoshimitsu NOGUCHI, Makoto YARINO, Yusuke NIHEI
  • Patent number: 11652150
    Abstract: Provided are a charge trap evaluation method and semiconductor device including, in an embodiment, a step for applying an initialization voltage that has the same sign as a threshold voltage and is greater than or equal to the threshold voltage between the source electrode 15 and drain electrode 16 of a semiconductor device 1 having an HEMT structure and the substrate 10 of the semiconductor device 1 and initializing a trap state by forcing out trapped charge from a trap level and a step for monitoring the current flowing between the source electrode 15 and drain electrode 16 after the trap state initialization and evaluating at least one from among charge trapping, current collapse, and charge release.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Kuniyuki Kakushima, Takuya Hoshii, Hitoshi Wakabayashi, Kazuo Tsutsui, Hiroshi Iwai, Taiki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20230060498
    Abstract: An imaging device including a first filter that passes a first light and a second light; a second filter that blocks the second light; photoelectric converters that have sensitivity to the first light and the second light; and a processor, in which one of the photoelectric converters detects a light passing through the first filter to generate a first signal, one of the photoelectric converters detects a light passing through the first filter and the second filter to generate a second signal, and the processor performs the second light sensing based on the first signal and the second signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshiaki SATOU, Kazuko NISHIMURA, Yasuo MIYAKE, Osamu SHIBATA, Hiroshi IWAI
  • Patent number: 11565623
    Abstract: A light apparatus mounted on a vehicle includes a lamp that emits light into a first region through a first cover and a radar provided on a lower side or an upper side of the lamp. The radar includes a separator provided between the lamp and the radar, a circuit board having a board surface arranged in a substantially horizontal manner, and an antenna that is disposed on the board surface of the circuit board, transmits electromagnetic waves through a second cover in a second region that is at least partially different from the first region, and receives reflected waves through the second cover from objects outside the vehicle in the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwai, Ryosuke Shiozaki, Shuji Akamatsu, Osamu Shibata, Ken Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11546521
    Abstract: A camera system including an imaging device that captures a first image by a normal exposure including only one exposure and that captures a second image by a multiple exposure including a plurality of exposures; and a control circuit. The the imaging device captures the second image in a first frame period, and the control circuit determines, based on the second image captured in the first frame period, whether to capture an image by the normal exposure or capture an image by the multiple exposure in a second frame period following the first frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Satou, Sanshiro Shishido, Yasuo Miyake, Kazuko Nishimura, Hiroshi Iwai, Osamu Shibata
  • Patent number: 11528424
    Abstract: An imaging device having an imager that includes first pixels having sensitivity to a first light and second pixels having sensitivity to a second light, a wavelength of the first light being different from a wavelength of the second light. The imager being configured to acquire first image data from the first pixels and being configured to acquire second image data from the second pixels. Each of the first image data and the second image data including an image of a code, the code being configured to output the second light. The imaging device further including an image processor configured to extract an image of the code based on the first image data and the second image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Satou, Kazuko Nishimura, Yasuo Miyake, Osamu Shibata, Hiroshi Iwai
  • Patent number: 11513149
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a method for evaluating the electrical defect density of a semiconductor layer, which comprises: a step for measuring an electric current by applying a voltage to a semiconductor element 1 which comprises a GaN layer 12 that serves as a semiconductor layer; and a step for deriving the electrical defect density in the GaN layer 12 with use of the measured electric current value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Kuniyuki Kakushima, Takuya Hoshii, Hitoshi Wakabayashi, Kazuo Tsutsui, Hiroshi Iwai, Taiki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11487009
    Abstract: An image capture control device includes a recognition unit that determines whether a peripheral situation corresponds to a predetermined situation based on image data, and a controller that controls an infrared light irradiation unit to increase a pulse number of transmission pulses to be emitted to a target, when the recognition unit determines that the peripheral situation corresponds to the predetermined situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwai, Hiroshi Iwamura, Osamu Shibata, Tomohiro Honda, Tomohito Nagata
  • Publication number: 20220161712
    Abstract: A light apparatus mounted on a vehicle includes a lamp that emits light into a first region through a first cover and a radar provided on a lower side or an upper side of the lamp. The radar includes a separator provided between the lamp and the radar, a circuit board having a board surface arranged in a substantially horizontal manner, and an antenna that is disposed on the board surface of the circuit board, transmits electromagnetic waves through a second cover in a second region that is at least partially different from the first region, and receives reflected waves through the second cover from objects outside the vehicle in the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi IWAI, Ryosuke SHIOZAKI, Shuji AKAMATSU, Osamu SHIBATA, Ken TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11333489
    Abstract: An imaging device includes a pixel. The pixel includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; a photoelectric conversion layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the photoelectric conversion layer converting light into signal charge; and a charge accumulation region coupled to the second electrode, the charge accumulation region accumulating the signal charge. The pixel captures first data in a first exposure period and captures second data in a second exposure period different from the first exposure period, the first exposure period and the second exposure period being included in a frame period. A length of the first exposure period is different from a length of the second exposure period. The imaging device generates multiple-exposure image data including at least the first data and the second data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuko Nishimura, Yasuo Miyake, Yoshiaki Satou, Osamu Shibata, Hiroshi Iwai
  • Patent number: 11285864
    Abstract: A light apparatus mounted on a vehicle includes a lamp unit having: a first cover, and a light source that emits light through a first cover into a predetermined area including a first direction. The light apparatus also includes: a radar unit provided on a lower side or an upper side of the lamp unit, and a separator provided between the lamp unit and the radar unit. The radar unit includes: a circuit board having a board surface arranged in a substantially horizontal state, and an antenna unit that transmits an electromagnetic wave in a range including a second direction different from the first direction and that receives a reflected wave from an object existing outside the vehicle. The antenna unit is arranged in the board surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwai, Ryosuke Shiozaki, Shuji Akamatsu, Osamu Shibata, Ken Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11200688
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus that is mounted on a vehicle that runs on a road surface includes: a light source that emits illumination light which is infrared light; a solid-state imaging device that images a subject and outputs an imaging signal indicating a light exposure amount; and a computator that computes subject information regarding the subject by using the imaging signal. The solid-state imaging device includes: first pixels that image the subject by receiving reflected light that is the illumination light reflected off the subject; and second pixels that image the subject by receiving visible light. Information indicated by an imaging signal outputted from the first pixels is information regarding a slope of the road surface, and information indicated by an imaging signal outputted from the second pixels is information regarding an appearance of the road surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPAN
    Inventors: Kenji Iwahashi, Hiroki Shinde, Tomohiro Honda, Noritaka Shimizu, Hiroshi Iwai, Osamu Shibata
  • Publication number: 20210385366
    Abstract: A camera system including an imaging device that captures a first image by a normal exposure including only one exposure and that captures a second image by a multiple exposure including a plurality of exposures; and a control circuit. The the imaging device captures the second image in a first frame period, and the control circuit determines, based on the second image captured in the first frame period, whether to capture an image by the normal exposure or capture an image by the multiple exposure in a second frame period following the first frame period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshiaki SATOU, Sanshiro SHISHIDO, Yasuo MIYAKE, Kazuko NISHIMURA, Hiroshi IWAI, Osamu SHIBATA
  • Patent number: 11128806
    Abstract: A camera system includes an imaging device that acquires a first image by a normal exposure including only one exposure and that acquires a second image by a multiple exposure including a plurality of exposures; and an image processor that extracts a feature value of a first object in the first image and that identifies one or more locations corresponding to the feature value in the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Satou, Sanshiro Shishido, Yasuo Miyake, Kazuko Nishimura, Hiroshi Iwai, Osamu Shibata
  • Patent number: 11056766
    Abstract: An antenna apparatus for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic waves via a cover member disposed outside, including: first and second antenna sections that are disposed adjacently to each other along a direction orthogonal to a predetermined direction to which the electromagnetic waves are transmitted and received and that transmit the electromagnetic waves, respectively; and first and second dielectric lenses that are disposed in the predetermined direction to which the first and second antenna sections transmit their electromagnetic waves and narrow beams of the electromagnetic waves transmitted by the first and second antennas, respectively, to transmit to the outside, in which an outer end face of first dielectric lens protrudes further forward in the predetermined direction than an outer end face of second dielectric lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ken Takahashi, Ryosuke Shiozaki, Hiroshi Iwai
  • Publication number: 20210197707
    Abstract: A light apparatus mounted on a vehicle includes a lamp unit having: a first cover, and a light source that emits light through a first cover into a predetermined area including a first direction. The light apparatus also includes: a radar unit provided on a lower side or an upper side of the lamp unit, and a separator provided between the lamp unit and the radar unit. The radar unit includes: a circuit board having a board surface arranged in a substantially horizontal state, and an antenna unit that transmits an electromagnetic wave in a range including a second direction different from the first direction and that receives a reflected wave from an object existing outside the vehicle. The antenna unit is arranged in the board surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi IWAI, Ryosuke SHIOZAKI, Shuji AKAMATSU, Osamu SHIBATA, Ken TAKAHASHI